For developers only: Language Wars

Every week on the ScobleShow I’ll try to have a geek on that’ll teach you something, well, geeky. You know, a tip on how to do AJAX right or a look inside a development tool like a new version of Eclipse or Visual Studio or an updated or new framework like Ruby on Rails. This week, however, we have something a little more fun: a language war. The setting for this conversation? My mom’s house in Montana where a group of geeks met up for an “Off the Grid” campout. What’s your favorite language? Leave a comment and maybe we’ll have you on a future show.

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